Skydio
Systems Integration and Test Engineer (Senior to Staff Level)
$196K–$270K
San Mateo, California, United States · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 4, 2026
- Experience
- 6+ years.
About the job
Owns requirements, system integration, verification, and failure analysis for autonomous flying robots to ensure reliability and performance.
What you'll do
- Define system requirements and architecture, and establish standards for requirements definition.
- Lead product bring-up, performance verification, failure triage, and cross-functional resolution of system issues.
- Analyze flight telemetry and field data to assess risk, improve reliability, and develop testing processes and tools.
What they ask for
- 6+ years of hands-on work defining, designing, analyzing, testing, modeling, and delivering highly reliable electro-mechanical systems in rapid development environments.
- Systems-engineering problem solving across mechanical, electrical, and software domains; test design and execution, including mechatronic prototyping and fixture fabrication.
- Proficiency in reliability principles, physics of failure, and integration risks for critical electronics subsystems.
- Proficiency in Python, SQL, and AI tooling for dataset analysis and scripting commands for electro-mechanical systems.
Pay
USD $196,000 - $270,000 annual base salary
Tools
Python, SQL, AI tooling
AI focus
Use AI tooling to analyze datasets for specification definition, risk assessments, and reliability data analysis.
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